26 Rutland Gate

[3] The National Heritage List for England describes the design of the house as "Four-bay front with four-storey canted bay window.

The house was Tombs's last building at Rutland Gate and was first leased by a solicitor, Frederick Pratt Barlow.

[4][5] The Mitfords were forced to give up Rutland Gate in the midst of the Great Depression, and it was initially rented from them by the Earl of Elgin, and subsequently by an American woman, a Mrs Warren Pearl.

[4] Jessica Mitford recalled Rutland Gate in her 1960 memoir, Hons and Rebels, describing the house as reflecting "comfort and serviceability rather than elegance".

The house was put up for sale for $1 million, then a record price for a property in London, following Gangel's bankruptcy after the collapse of IOS.